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The House of Representatives has tasked the Federal Government with the request to rehabilitate, grow and implicit the Bida –Agaie –Lapai – Lambata -Diko Road successful Niger.
The telephone was sequel to the adoption of a question by Rep. Saidu Abdulahi (APC-Niger) astatine plenary connected Wednesday successful Abuja.
Moving the motion, Abdulahi said that the caller tanker detonation astatine Essa Village successful Katcha Local Government Area of Niger, tragically claimed astir 30 lives and near astatine slightest 40 others injured.
He said that the occurrence incidental besides destroyed vehicles, livestock and perishable goods worthy millions of naira.
The lawmaker said that the tragic incidental occurred on the Bida – Agaie – Lapai – Lambata–Diko Road, a large national road linking Niger to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and different parts of the country.
Abdulahi said that the roadworthy serves arsenic a captious way for the proscription of petroleum products, cultivation commodities and different goods.
According to him, the Essa Village catastrophe is lone 1 among respective recurrent tanker explosions and fatal accidents that person occurred on the corridor successful caller months.
“The Bida – Agaie – Lapai – Lambata – Diko Road has remained successful deplorable information for decades, successful spite of successive administrations awarding aggregate contracts for its rehabilitation, nary of which person been afloat executed oregon delivered.
He said that each the explosions led to persistent nonaccomplishment of lives, livelihoods, and nationalist assurance successful the information of the route.
“The rehabilitation and reconstruction of the roadworthy were astatine a constituent nether the Road Infrastructure Tax Credit Scheme, a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) exemplary designed to leverage firm taxation obligations for captious infrastructure delivery.
“In spite of the imaginable of the Tax Credit Scheme to fast-track infrastructural development, the Federal Government precocious announced cancellation of NNPC involution connected roads.
“This near respective ongoing oregon projected projects – including the Bida – Agaie – Lapai – Lambata – Diko Road – successful uncertainty and execution limbo.
“The continued neglect of this captious road has resulted successful predominant gridlocks, demolition of goods, nonaccomplishment of productive hours and terrible hardship for commuters and residents, portion turning the roadworthy into a decease trap for motorists, tanker drivers and traders,” helium said.
Abdulahi said that the roadworthy was not lone important to Niger, but besides to the nation’s economical web arsenic it connects cultivation accumulation zones to markets and the FCT.
The lawmaker called for contiguous national attraction and sustainable interventions to rebuild the roadworthy for casual entree and avert further accidents successful the area.
The location urged the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing and the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) to instantly mobilise resources and contractors to commence afloat rehabilitation, enlargement and completion of the road.
The lawmaker urged the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and applicable agencies to intensify enforcement of information standards for tanker and heavy-duty operators to guarantee compliance with roadworthiness, loading procedures and exigency effect protocols.
The greenish chambers urged the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to supply alleviation materials and aesculapian enactment to the victims and families of the Essa Village tanker explosion.
In his ruling, the Deputy Speaker, Rep. Benjamin Kalu, mandated the House Committees connected Works, FERMA, FRSC and Finance to behaviour a broad appraisal of the road.
He said that the presumption of erstwhile contractual arrangements should beryllium fixed due attention, and a study should beryllium submitted wrong 2 weeks for further legislative action.
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